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The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-01
DUMMY TRAINS EAsrwARD.

Tho East End dummy railway
line, 10 be In operation by the first OF
next month, will cost 100000. A
largo iorco Is now at work grading
the line, aud iron aud ties are piled
at convenient intervals along the
route Tor the track 10 be laid within
the next few weeks. The line crosse.
the Memphis and Charleston railway
at Union street by a bridge now ia
course OF construction, crosses 20
Madison Place about midway be.
~ .gu Union avenue and the Poplar
boulevard, runs east three aud a halt
miles 10 Cooper Avenue, aud turns
south AZ that avenue 10 the Jockey
Club grounds, or Montgomery Park.
The engines, oars aud everything
need 4 Tor the roads equipment are
now in course Of construction, aud
tho work is to be pushed to a speedy
com Lotion.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-01

U. a. Krso, Of the Leeispla, o.,
Democrat, doubt, d the NJ ina in iestl.
Wro,e and found them uus.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-01
LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE RAIL

LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE RAIL
WAY.
The Louisville aud Nashville rail.
way has brought TO this city during
the past fifteen years fully 10000
bales Of cotton. aud has carried away
during the Same time nearly 1000,
90 bales. The lines OF this system
cover moro than 1000 miles. The
receipts and shipments Of cotton over
the line during the past FIVE years
aggregate asiollows for each year:
The Washington critic., 1887-12-12
WOMEN OF PUSH.
Some Who Get Along in The World. and
some Who DO Not.

The world is full of pushing women,
who, not satisfied with the goods the
gods have provided, are still reaching
after something else. 1t docs not follow
that they are poor or obscure; they may
drive in their carriages, have their
names bruitcd about in every daily fash
ion report, live in ease and luXury, but
still, If their nature is pushing, push they
will, and will not be happy in any condi-
ton, even upon throne. To be sure, the
pushingwoman is usuallyfar from the cell
cbrty which she covcts. She usually be-
gins by pushing for the nccessaries-so-
cicty, excitement and ducats. To get her
self recognized in whatever vocation she
chooscs-if she goes in for literature,
she pushes herself into the foremost
ranks, not always by virtue of her
merits, but by sheer persistence, peril
nacity and audacity; if for society, there
are no barriers which have proved effect
ual TO keep her out. In travelling she
secures the best seat, ut table d'hote the
best service; first come first served is
reversed in her case.
Strange us IL may seem, the pushing
woman is not always disagrccable; If
she were, all her efforts would, perhaps,
come to naught. she may be vulgar,
she may be selfish, but she must be
amiablc; she must know something of
human nature, how to manage and ca
iolc her bcttcrs, when to push; she
must not remember Sights she must
not resent snubs, or, Mt least, not re-
sent them till she achieves success.
No doubt, in her own inner conscious
ness, pushing may seem very lnuda-
bic industry, and she may be inclined
to question if it is not MS credi,able us
many other ambitions, which the
world has consented to believe heroic.
There is, however, the woman who
pushes boldly, who does not seek TO dis
guisc her warfare, and there is she who
pushes subtly and quietly and ably: the
last is the artist in her business, and it
is perhaps almost Il pleasure to be pushed
by her, since her ability more or less de-
serves the place she demands. How
ever we may appreciate the push
ing woman, her anXietics and pa
ticncc, we do not care to know
her; we would willingly avoid
her society and cut her acquaintance if
she would allow it. And although She
resembles heroine of novel, and We
are amused by her difficulties, and her
mancuvers interest and instruct Ms, still
we sympathize with her failures, il we
do not approve Of her success.-l tIar-
per's Bazaar.
The Washington critic., 1887-12-12
A Menu of Hard Tack.

A man at the Veterans banquet wednes-
day night was heard to remark that they
had twelve ways Of preparing hard tack in
the army. 1t was toasted on stick; soaked
in water and fried; fried dry; eaten dry;
dipped in egg and fried, when an egg was to
be had; crushed and mixed into II kind of
cake, and treated in number of other in
genious ways. Where articles Of diet arc
limited, inventive genius, aided by appetite,
can work wonders, and the simplest product
of nature can be transformed into variety
of dishes, none of which would recognize
the other Buffalo Courier.
The Washington critic., 1887-12-12
WASHINGTON CR1rrc EVENING DECEMBER 12 1887
Open Evenings It'll Christmas.

Beginning THIS EVEN.
ING our establishment will
be kept open until NINE
O'CLOCK P. M. to accom-.
modate holiday purchasers
who find it either impossible
or inconvenient to shop
earlier.
The store is full OF Practi-
cal Presents for all, and you
are advised to make your Sc
lections at once, thus avoid
ing the crowds, delays, an
noyances and other incon-
veniences incident to shop.
ping the last few days before
Christmas.
WOODWARD LoTHRop.
Cor. 11th and L SITS. N. W.
The Washington critic., 1887-12-12
Loses Strength in Translation

An American joke sometimes loses itself
through translation into another language.
A native humorist wrote;
notwithstanding that lady should al
ways be quiet and selfcontained, she can.
not even enter place OF worship without a
tremendous bustlc.h
a French writer reproduces it in this
form:
According to an American author, the
ladies of that country are so greedy of no.
toricty that they cannot enter the holy sane.
tnary without disturbing the kneeling wor,
shippers with their vulgar and unseemly
ado. "-[Binghamton Republican.
The Washington critic., 1887-12-12
ELEGANT Lace JaD0ts. FiChuS, Ties, ETC..

Woodward & Lothrop invite attention to their
elegant line OF
LACE JABOTs,
LACE TIES,
LACE FtC1IuS,
SILK sCARFs,
LACE CoLLARETTEs, ETC,
and quote the following:
Black Guipuro Lace Fichns,
soc, zoe, 81, 30, / .35, 80, go, 6S, 1.75,
100, 2.25, $50 and $50 each.
Black Spanish Lace Scarfs,
S5c, 81, 1.i5, 1.2o, 1T5. 225, $50, 3.25 and
80 each.
Black 1landrun Lace Fichts,
$3.50, 300, 3.75, $50, 500, 7.5O and 1000
each.
Black Handrun Lace Ties
SO, 800, $40, l50, 500, sa)O and 1880 each.
Duchess anil Duchess Poir4 Colarettes,
$3.50, 900, 600, z. 90 lind spieach.
These latter We're purchased at the New York
auction sale of Messrs. Duden ~ Co., and arc Of
iered much below regular value.
(NIaln floor, right of muin entrancc)
WOODWARD ~ LoTHRoP,
Cor 11th and L SITS. n. W.
The Washington critic., 1887-12-12
The Latest Exile.

"You have brother in foreign lands, l
believer
"Ycs, he is in Japan now"
"Traveling for his healthW
"Wcll, in way"
"flow in way?'n
why, he was u judge in baby show
some time ago, and It won't be safe for him
TO come back for at least three years. il
Nebraska State Journal.
The Washington critic., 1887-12-12
IL Is No Great wonder.

No wonder so many bright, pretty girls
develop into faded, worn-out, nervous
women. A woman cannot be Il mother,
- kitchen drudge, laundress, scamstress,
dairy maid and all other kinds of maid
and retain her good looks and happy
disposition very long, even il she had n
good supply to start with. ] never sec
- vinegary-faced, iretful woman, with u
fadcd-out expression, that do not come
TO the conclusion instantly that she has
been overworkcd. l donot wonder that
so many tircd-out creatures long 10 pull
the coverlet Of green grass and daisies
over them and take to their last, long
rest
The Washington critic., 1887-12-12
We'll Provided for.

An old friend to widow yet in tears-I
presume your dear husband had made all
preparations to face his Maker?
"He had, indeed. He was insured in six
different companies. Fl Paris Figaro.
The Washington critic., 1887-12-12
Bargains in Black Cashmere.

A recent purchase at lower prices than have
heretofore prevailed enable us to offer the cele-
bratod Dauphlnot Black Cashmeres, under the
name of ''Monopole," dyed by A, Guylloumct, at
the lowest retail prices ever named for these
qualities:
The Washington critic., 1887-12-12
The Presidents Message.

Great precaution is taken to guard
against the publication of the Presidents
Message before it is read in Congress.
The copy is sent in sealed envelopes, by
special messenger, to the Public Printer,
personally. The type is set up in the
room occupied by the Congressional
Record. No one is allowed in the room
but small corps of printers, all of
whom are known to the Public Printer
TO be perfectly trustworthy. As soon as
the copy is put in type proof is taken,
the form is brought into the clerk Office
and locked up in n large iron safe, and
the proof is read by the Public Printer
personally and the clerk in charge. The
corrections are made, another proof is
taken and the type and first proof put
back in the safe with the copy, and the
corrected proof sent to the President.
There is little fear of the Message being
stolen, though for fear of II President
Grant always submitted his Message to
Congress in manuscript.
w.,
An old friend of mine, who had been
wealthy and was then poor, considered
himself independent, because he chad
little to depend upon" and when sitting
ut his modest table l remarked "Noth-
ing is better than cold beef" he replied,
II beg your pardon; cold beef is better
than nothing"
~
I remember q duel fought between
two officers, during which, when it was
proposed, after the principals had ex-
changed several Intellectual shots,
that they should shake hands, it was
objected to us unnecessary by one of the
seconds on the ground that their hands
had been shaking" for half hour.
~
A bayonet charge and its results are
thus described by Chinese author
Soldier he come on, he come on, lp
come on quite near; we 90 way. HON
can two men stand on one spot, SOP
"a
Teacher with reading class: Boy
(reading. g.)-"And as she sailed down the
river-"Teacher-"Why are ships called
shc?" Boy-Bccause they need men to
manage them"
81 say Jim," said one friend to an
other on meeting Il hear our friend
Smith has been in speculation heavily.
Has he made anything" Eyes" said
Jim, "he has made an assignment"
W.
No man is so foolish but he may give
good advice at times; no man so wise
but he may err if he takes no counsel
but his own.
~
An Irishman, seeing a vessel very
heavily laden, and scarcely above the
waters edge, exclaimcd; "Upon nv
sowl if the river was but little higher
| do believe the ship would go to the
bottom" HOWARD MILLS,
The Washington critic., 1887-12-12
WASHINGTON CRITIC
ODDS AND ENDS.
They Mcrc AiiPoor ncys.

John Adams, second President Of the
United States, was the son of u farmer of
very moderate means. The only start
he had was good education.
Andrew jackson was born in n log-hut
in North Carolina, and was raised in the
pine woods for which the state Is famous.
james X. Polk spent the early years of
his life helping TO olga living out of n now
farm in North Carolina. lie was after
wards clerk in II country store.
Millard Filemorc was the son of New
York farmer.
james Buchanan was born in small
town in the Allcghany Mountains. Ills
father cut the logs and built his own
house in what was then wilderness.
Abraham Lincoln was the son of n
very poor Kentucky farmer, and lived
in a log cabin until he was twenty-onc
years old.
Andrew johnson was apprcnticed TO
II tailor at the age of ten years by his
widowed mother. He was never able to
attend school, and picked up all the
education he ever got.
General Grant lived the life of u COM
mon boy in common house on the
banks OF the Ohio River until he was
seventeen years of age.
The Washington critic., 1887-12-12

An 1rishman, seeing vessel very
heavily laden, and scarcely above the
waters edge, exclaimcd: "Upon my
sowl if the river was but little higher.
| do believe the ship would 20 to the
bottom" HOWARD MILLS,
The Washington critic., 1887-12-12
How To snN II.

Say "you and me- and not "you and
Il" mot that know, and not "not that
| know Of" 'if / mistake not" and not
"if am not mistaken" sit rains very
fast, " and not Every hard" 81 lifted
it," and not II lifted it up"
The Washington critic., 1887-12-12
~ 1

81 say Jim," said one friend to an
other on meeting Il hear our friend
Smith has been in speculation heavily.
Has he made anything" eyes" said
jim, "hc has made an assignment"
The Washington critic., 1887-12-12
Cast glance on our Remnants and
see what we have done:

see what we have done.
81 Bleached Utica Sheetng, hest made, 16c.
oI Blcached Utica Shectng best made, 1sc.
1O-1 Bleached Utica Sleetng best made, 20c
yard, 31c.
Tycoon Rep for Wrappers, neat patterns, 10c.
Our line of o5c Atwood Double'wldth Dress
Goods, o1c.
nouble.faco Plush Canton Flannel, high colors,
12lhc
Dark and Medium Gray Domet Skirting Flan-
mel, siSc,
Fancy Tufted Zephyr Dress Goods, 6IGc.
This line alone should be nducement enough.
The Washington critic., 1887-12-12

These are the same grades we have been sell
Ing AT the first prices for the past five years with
steadily increasing success and are pro-emlnent
values at these reduced prices.
CFlrst floor, rear of 1913 + st entrance.)
The Washington critic., 1887-12-12

No man is so foolish but he may give
good advice at times; no man so wise
but he may err if he takes no counsel
but his own.
The Washington critic., 1887-12-12

Teacher with reading class: Boy
reading. g.)-"And as she sailed down the
river-"Teacher-"Why are ships called
she?" Boy-Bccause they need men to
manage them"
The Washington critic., 1887-12-12

A bayonet charge and its results are
thus described by Chinese author
Soldier he come on, he come on, lle
come on quite near; we go way. HON
can two men stand ON one spot, so?'
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-07-01
AatpEAucation for Women.

No Investment of funds, says Mrs
Livermore. will yield so large an inter-
est to an American city. as the money
given to found technical and industrial
schools. where gifted and promising
girls can be trained for such occupa-
tons at small expense to themselves.
Their commercial value, alone, should
give them practical importance in any
community. And rs industrial art
and fine art have, in the main, the
same elementary basis. whatever pro-
notes the former must aid the latter
directly or indirectly; and thus the
public taste will be elevated, and the
public judgment of art-matters edu-
Gated.
1 have emphasized the need and
value of industrial art-education for
women, because of the deficiency in
this respect in our present school sys-
TENS; and because it offers to the am
bition of women an almost limitless
field. not crowded with applicants, as
is the profession of teaching.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-07-01

tice law. the Supreme Court decided
that Miss Lelia J. Robinson. theask
properly qualified. was not person;
and 9 special act of the Legislature
had to Ne passed. to enable her to prac.
tice. Now. for the first time. the
question h:S arisen whether man is .
person. One Samuel Clark, recently
arrested and bosHd over to the grand
jury for being fousd in . disorderly
house in Iowa, was released on q writ
of habeas corpus, tsfNi before Judge
Given. The grounds for the decision
were that the word person ~ uDed in
the statutes does not apply to . man
found in such a house, but only to
women. The Iowa Tribune causticsl-
ly says:
'.ln other words, woman Is a per-
son when the law wishes to punish
her. but man equally guilty is not .
person. Again. on election day .
woman is not person. because voting
is to be done; but a man is person,
and has the privilege of making laws
and electing Judge Given to interpret
them"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-07-01

Halle Arnold was cool, self-possessed
and gave an unwavering account of the
disappearance of her bracelet. She
then told of Helen Lakeman coming to
their house with a man. and of her next
finding the bracelet in her carpet bag.
There was just the least exultation on
Hallie's part as she told the justice
about the poor girls fall.
The witness was at last turned over
to the tender mercies of Mr. Layman.
Mr.. Layman wanted to know how
long Helen had been ct Mr.. ArnOld's
house, before the bracelet was missing?
She came the night before. What time
the night before? 1t was dark or about
dark. Was it dark? Halle looked
confused and said she did not see her
when she came. Who was with her?
A man. What was his namsS Peter
Starr, commonly known as "Pete, the
petldler." Was any one else with her?
Yes Who? Speaking almost under her
breath she sail her little brother. Was
not Pete carrying him? She did not
know, mother met 'em at the door.
TO b OOxTINCxNl
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-07-01
WOMAN'S SPHERE,
Harriet Beecher Stoves Ideas Of What
Women Should He Permitted to do.

Harriet feecher Stoves Ideas OF What
Women Should He Permitted to do.
Woman's Rights conventions are a
protest against many former absurd.
unreasonable ideas-the mere physical
and culinary idea of womanhood, rs
connected only with buildings and
shirt-buttens. the unjust and unequal
burdens which the laws of harsher
ages bad cast upon the sex. Many Of
the women connected with these
movements are Is superior in every
thing properly womanly as they are in
exceptional talent and culture.
There is no manner of doubt that
the sphere Of woman is properly to be
enlarged. and that republican govern
ments in particular are to be saved
from corruption and failure only by
allowing to woman this enlarged
sphere. Every woman has rights as a
human being first, which belong to no
sex, and ought to be as freely con-
coded to her as if she were man
and first and foremost, the great right
of doing any thing which God and
nature evidently have fitted her 10 ex-
eel in. If she he made . natural ora
tor. like Miss Dickinson. or an astron-
omer. like Mrs. Somerville, or q
singer. like Grisi. let not the technical
rules of womanhoOd be thrown in the
way Of her free use of her powers. Nor
can there be any reason shown why a
wOmsn's vote in the State should not
be received with Is much respect as in
the family.
A State is but an association Of fam
lilies, and laws relate to the rights and
immunities which touch woman's most
private and immediate wants and dear
est hopes, and there is no reason why
sister. wife and mother should be more
pOwerless in the State than in the
home. Nor does it make a woman I'M
womanly to express an opinion by drop
ping slip Of paper into box. more
than to express that same opinion by
conversation. In fact, there is no
doubt that. in all matters relating to
the interests of education, temperance
and religion. the State would be ma
terial gamer by receiving the votes of
wOmen.-Harriet Bee cher StOUe.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-07-01
The Ballots Elevating Influence.

Properly considered, the woman sui.
frage movement is, or should be, OF
the profoundest interest to all the
friends of labor reform. The ballot
always elevates and improves the in
dustrial condition of the person hold
ing it. The negro was freed without
being cnfranchised. but it was his bal.
lot that put him on an equal footing
with the white man in the labor
market. That women to-day are sub
ject to inequalities of condition. unjust
determinations as to wages and terms
of labor, as compared with men, is a
fact. That with the ballot in their
hands these inequalities and unjust
determinations would cease is, we be-
lieve, certain. That they should
cease is for the interest Of all the peo-
pie who labor. men and women alike.
Once the working-men grasp this
truth the movement for woman suf-
frage will receive an impetus that will
surely carry it to victory.-B0sto"
6lob.. -
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-07-01
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.

Miss LOUISE IMOGEN Quincy Is
about to bring out new volume of
poems
Mis- JULIA C. r. DORR will spend
the summer in England and Scotland.
Mrs. OLE BULL has taken Mr.. Ed
win Booths house on Chestnut street,
Boston, for next winter.
MRS. JAMES T. FIELDS has one of the
choicest collections of autograph letters
of authors in America.
NINE. MARIE DRONsART. a French
woman, has written a biography Of
Bismarck in three volumes.
QUEEN MARGHARITA. of Italy, has
established an asylum for the blind in
the Baths of DiOcletian mt Rome.
Mrs. SUSAN l.. MILLS, with her late
husband. founded Mills College, Oak.
land. Cal. She is now the principal,
and has added $4,000 to its endow.
ment
Mis-. HARRIET STANTON BLATCH
crowds great deal of truth into nut
shell when she says: Women are not
too ignorant to vote. but men are toe
ignorant to grant them the vote"
Miss ELIZABETH CURTIS. George
William Curtis daughter. has formed
Working Women's Guild on Staten
Island. with reading-rooms. library
and pleasant evening recreations.
ARCHDUCnEss MARIE VALERIE, Of
Austria. who is betrothed to the heir
presumptive to the crown of Saxony,
has literary tastes and is a frequent
contributor to German magazines.
KATHERINE lyman, an Irish lady
who has written some beautiful poems,
is about to publish new volume en-.
titled 'Shamrocks, (which will be ded.
icated to her friends William and
Christina Rosetti.
Mrs. ELIZABETH SMITH SHORrT. one
Of the first graduating class of the
Kingston WOmen's Medical College.
was chosen as lecturer upon medical
jurisprudence and sanitary science in
the Woman's Medical College of Kings
ton, Can, at the last meeting of the
Board of Trustees.
THE idea of woman suffrage has
crossed the State line from Kansas, and
invaded Missouri. At the Ministers
Alliance, held in Kansas City. Thurs
day, June 2, the question was for con-
sideration. and a majority of the min.
listers present favored the extension OF
suffrage to women.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-07-01

come to take mo to Heaven If I die
here" 81
.'You shall go at once" said Clar-
ence. 81
swell, we'll seer cried Bill Jones,
with an oath. He stood in the door.
his fists clenched. The timid paupers
fled at the first indications of hostili-
ties.
Clarence was rnsh and indiscreet in
this, as he showed himself to be in all
other things. At a bound he struck the
ruffian, Jones. a blow in the mouth,
which feIled him to the ground. Jones
was hardly prepared for such an attack.
and learned to his cost the power of
that Herculean arm. <!
Selling the frightened child, CLAIR
ence bore him to the buggy. sprang in
and drove off. leaving Bill Jones to
wonder whether thunder-bolt. or fall
ing mortar had struck him.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-07-01
A Woman Member.

Will you not, in the interest of
women. please agitate and re-agitate
the question of a woman member? !
do not mean a member of women, but
a member of clothes, sewer-on of butt
tons, ETC.. who. making this special
ty, might support herself. and greatly
relieve over-burdened brain and hand
workers among women. She could
have her times and seasons appointed
for each family or individual and
charge each one so moderately. and do
the work 80 well. that she would soon
become permanent and most benefi-
cent institution.
lam going to see. at my earliest
leisure, if we Can not start this enter
prise in my own town. Woman wants
bread as well rs the ballot and whom
ever she gets one Of these she has
taken step toward the other.
FRANCES E WILLARD
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-07-01
A Point for Free.Traders:

Our able free-trade newspapers,
one after the other, are coming out to
point a moral against the protective
idea by declaiming that Mr.. De Paw.
the late owner Of some glass factories
In Indiana, died worth some $l5, OOO.-
0O0 In this they think they see the
enormous evils Of protection. In
free-trade countries like England
great manufacturers like De Pauw
have no difficulty in amassing great
fortunes The difference is here. In
England the working people do not
accumulate any thing Among De
Pauw's operatives we will guarantee
there we're many who themselves have
accumulated competence.-Boston i'd
reytiSer.